"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

Humor, Society, Dress

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"I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'"

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Humor, Mental, Friend, Imagination

"Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?""I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires and no blood," Claire said. "Is that it?""No, I was thinking we're out of chips. Of course that's what I was thinking."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Humor, Sin, Idea, Truth

"Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Humor, Laughter, Wisdom, Mortality

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Humor, First, Fool, Kissing, Wonder

"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Humor, Laughter, Sanity, Life

"If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'"

"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

"Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?""I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires and no blood," Claire said. "Is that it?""No, I was thinking we're out of chips. Of course that's what I was thinking."

"Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible."

"Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."

"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane."

"If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox."

"Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident."

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"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."

"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."